Tool-holder.



G. M. HENDERSON.

TOOL HOLDER. APPLICATION IILED JAN. 1a, 1913.

Patented Oct. 21, 1913.

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GEORGE M. HENDERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TOOL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 13, 1913.

Patented Oct. 21, 1913.

Serial No. 741,616.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, GEORGE M. HENDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tool-Holders, of which the following, taken in connection with the drawing, is a description.

My invention has for its object the production of a tool holding device adapted to be secured to the garment worn by the person using the tool.

The principal object thereof is to produce such a device which shall be easily and readily attached to and detached from the garment when desired, and which forms a convenient holder for tools used by craftsmen such as' paper hangers and cutters shears, painters brushes, certain carpenter tools, etc.

A further object of my invention is to provide a holder for the purpose described which retains the tool in place without any clamping thereof, or other engaging means which requires time in placing the tool in position, but by a simple open link, provided with a guide or director the tool may be quickly dropped into the holder and remgved therefrom with the use of one hand on y. I

With these and other objects in view I have illustrated several forms of my device, which are capable of great variation in construction, in the accompanying drawings, and in these drawings Figure 1 illustrates a front view of one form of my device attached to the belt of a garment, with a pair of shears held in place therein; Fig. 2 is a Y sectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a top view of the construction shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4. illustrates another form of device with a different means of securing the holder to the garment; Fig. 5 is a view taken on line 5-5 of Fig. A; Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are modified forms of construction.

Referring to the drawing, it will be observed that each of these diiferent shapes of my device, preferably formed of wire, is so bent that the means for securing it to the garment and the means for holding the tool are formed from a single piece of material. In Fig. 1 I have shown a form of construction adapted to be secured to a belt or over the top of a pair of overalls. As shown the wire A is bent to form two loops at, a between which the belt is engaged to hold the device in place. One end of the device a 1s free and extends outwardly to form an open link A within which the tool is placed as shown in Fig. 1. a is a stop formed by bending the wire as shown against which one side of the handle Z) of the shears rests. The free end a of the device forms a guide along which the tool slides when being placed in the holder. It will be observed that the stop a does not lie in the same plane as the guide a thereby leaving an open passageway from the holding link A. By this means the user, having a tool such as a pair of shears in his hand as he uses them, simply passes them backwardly into contact with the guide a and drops them into the open link A, where they are held in position to be readily grasped when needed again. When needed for use again the handle is ready for use and the shears may be withdrawn without any unclamping or detaching from the holder.

The holding arrangement in each of the differentshapes shown in the drawing is the same, but I have shown a variety of ways of attaching the device to the garment.

The form of holder shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is adapted to be attached to the clothing by fastening the loops 0, 0 over buttons 0 0 The construction shown in Fig. 7 embodies a frame C adapted to be placed inside a pocket and by this means to be held in place for use. Fig. 6 also has a frame C adapted to be placed in a pocket. The open link is formed by bending the guide as shown, the opening thereof being on the side opposite that shown in the forms of construction heretofore referred to. Fig. 8 illustrates merely a different form of means for securing the device in place on the garment. In this instance the holder is provided with a hook D which engages through the cloth of the garment. D is a strip of cloth looped over the back of the holding device and attached to the garment with a pin cl, or otherwise. Each of these devices is secured in place in or on the garment in such manner that there is a sufiicient freedom of movement thereof to allow the tool to be placed in the open link by simply drawing the tool may pass sideWise into the link but the tool along the guide as heretofore we cannot drop therefrom, and means for atplained. taching said tool holder to the garment of I claim the wearer, suhstantlally as descrihed. l5 5 A tool holder comprising a Wire bent to In testimony whereof, I have signed thls form an elongated receiving link having an specification in the presence of two subscribentrance openlng for a tool, a stop, a guide ing Witnesses.

formed on one side of said link along which GEORGE M. HENDERSON. the tool is passed into the receiving link, Witnesses:

10 said stop and guide lying in different planes WELLS GOODI-IUE, thereby forming an opening through which CHARLES I. CoBB.

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